{"id":8685,"date":"2010-09-01T21:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T21:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/01\/cedric-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2010-09-01T21:45:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T21:45:29","slug":"cedric-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/01\/cedric-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedric is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmoviephoto.com\/photo\/2005_harry_potter_and_the_goblet_of_fire_081_big.html\">that<\/a> Cedric.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/38952866\/?gt1=43001\">This<\/a> Cedric.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Tasmanian devil named Cedric, once thought to be immune to a contagious facial cancer threatening the iconic creatures with extinction, has been euthanized after succumbing to the disease, researchers said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The death of the devil &#8212; previously heralded as a possible key to saving the species &#8212; is another blow for scientists struggling to stop the rapid spread of the cancer, which is transmitted when the furry black marsupials bite each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was very disappointing indeed,&#8221; said scientist Alex Kreiss of the Menzies Research Institute in Hobart, Tasmania, which has led the studies on Cedric. &#8220;It&#8217;s just made us more determined to keep the research going.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/38952866\/?gt1=43001\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not that Cedric. This Cedric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2g5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}